Plus, there’s the man who got away-the man who may have been her one true love. But if she’s being honest, Claire still fantasizes about her own missed opportunities: a chance to bond with her mother before it was too late, and the possibility of preventing her daughter from years of anguish. With a chance to do it again, she’s focused on convincing her husband, Colin, to give her the baby she desires.Ĭlaire is the only one who has made peace with her past: her twenty-two year old daughter, Emily, is finally on track after the turmoil of adolescence, and she's recently gotten engaged, with the two carat diamond on her finger to prove it. ,p>This heartwarming and hilarious novel from the authors of The Status of All Things and Your Perfect Life features three best friends who get the chance to. Yes, she’s one of the biggest authors in the world, but maybe what she really wanted to create was a family. Gabriela regrets that she wasted her most fertile years in hot pursuit of a publishing career. This time around, she’s determined to bury the secret of Lucas’ paternity, and to repair the fissures that sent her wandering the first time. Great memoirs for middle age include 'Eat Pray Love,' 'Wild,' and 'The Rainbow Comes and Goes. These books are worth reading at any age especially middle age. Jessie loves her son Lucas more than anything, but it tears her up inside that he was conceived in an affair that ended her marriage to a man she still loves, a man who just told her he's getting remarried. 20 books everyone should read in their 40s. This heartwarming and hilarious novel from the authors of The Status of All Things and Your Perfect Life features three best friends who get the chance to return to the year they turned forty-the year that altered all of their lives, in ways big and small-and also get the opportunity to change their future.

The Year We Turned Forty If you could repeat one year of your life, what would you do differently?

The Year We Turned Forty by Liz Fenton